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APPLICATION FILED SEPT-8| I914. 1,21 9 52 Patented Mar. 13,1917.

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F. CECKA. METHOD OF MAKING SOCKS OR STOCKINGS.

AFFLICATIQN FILED SEPT. 8. l9l4- Patented Mar. 13, 1917.

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-FRANZ CECKA, OF CHEMNITZ, GERMANY, ASSIGNOB TO THE FIRM OF SCHUBER'I. 8a

SALZER MASCHINENFABRIK, AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, OF CHEMNITZ, GERMANY.

METHOD OF MAKING SOCKS 0R STOCKINGS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 13, 1917.

Application filed September 8, 1914. Serial No. 860,641.

pertains to make'and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in stockings or socks and in the method of making the same. 'ments is to provide a method for making stockings or socks. on flat hosiery frames in a removing. the WOlk from the frame.

Heretofore in the manufacture of stockings 25 v or socks on flat hosiery frames the leg of the stocking or sock was first made and remot'ed from the frame and brought on a special machine for making the foot. This was necessary, because otherwise it was not possible to make a heel of the proper form. Inanother method, after completing the leg the medial part of the needles was thrown 'out of operation, whereupon by means of two thread guides at first the heel was knit and finally the foot was completed.

The object of the present improvements is to provide a method by means of which a stocking having a heel of the proper form can be made in a single, operation by means of a thread guide and without temporarily throwing a part of the needles out of operation.

In order that according to my improved method the heel can be made, the work'must be broadened for which purpose a part of the row of loops is widened at each side of the blank. Thereafter for knitting the heel the blank must again be narrowed .which' narrowing operation must rapidly proceed,

whereupon slow narrowing follows for passing over to the foot. y

If the blank is at first widened, and thereafter narrowed, the form of the heel is not such as is usual and is obtained by the nown knitting operation, but it is too short.

The object of the improve- When knitting a heel of the ordinary length the form of the stocking after sewing the blank together is not the usual one. In my improved method a stocking of the ordinary -form is produced by starting the narrowing operation for making the cap during the last part of the widening operation, so that widening and narrowing is simultaneously performed on a part of the frame.

- In order that my invention be more clearly understood an example embodying the same is illustrated in a diagrammatical way in the accompanying drawings, in which the same letters of reference have been used in all the views to indicate corresponding parts.

In said drawings Figure 1, is a diagrammatical' view showing a part of the leg, the heel, foot and toe of the blank, the lines of the figure indicating the direction in which the loops I are formed,

Fig. 2, is a similar view of a part of Fig.1,

Fig. 3, is a view of the part illustrated in Fig. 2, and showing the loops.

Referring to the example illustrated after the leg portion of the blank has been completed to the line A-{A, the loops are divided into three groups I, II, and III. In

the medial group II knitting is continued in the same way, while the rows of loops of the group I' are widened out to the left and the rows of loops of the group III are widened out to the right, so that the blank is gradually broadened. After the blank has thus been knit up to the line B-B, the groups I and III are again subdivided into groups I, I and III,III". and the groups I and III are farther widened out, While the groups I and III -are narrowed. After the blank has thus been knitted to the line CC, the loops of the are addedto the group II and knitting is continuedin the said groups without narrowing or widening, while in the group I and III narrowing is continued to the line D D. Thereafter the footof the blank is knitted with uniform" breadth, and finally the too is made.

The part of the blank which is located between the lines simultaneously narrowing and widening the blank, which ma be done in different ways.

As shown in ig. 3 the group III comgroups I and III- 7 it is not possible at the same time to widen and narrow the said seven loops, the group III is first widened, the seven loops -of group III being simultaneously widened, while the remaining six loops located at the right are unaffected, as appears from 7 row a. In the next row of loops group III is narrowed, seven loops of group III being simultaneously narrowed, and the other ones being unaffected, as is shown in row d. In the same way the groups are alternately widened and narrowed, the number of the loops which are being widened being gradually reduced, so that the row being widened is always the same number of loops'away from the margin, which number is'fou'r in a the example shown in the figures. place only in the second, fourth, sixth, etc.,

-- In the example shown widening can take rows, and the loops are widened over two needles. p

For widening and narrowing a tickler of a corresponding breadth may be used.

.Within' the section inclosed between lines AA and- B 'B the tickler operates for example in such, a way, that at first the group -I is widened to the left, and thereafter group III to theright. After these widening operations knitting takes place.

' The tickler may also be constructed in two sections, so that at the same time one section widens group I to the left and group III to the right. I

If widening takes place over two needles, this may be done in two widening opera tionsover one needle, or in a single widen ing operation. The number the' widening and narrowing operations can be different.

In theexample shown from-row BB widening 'and narrowing are alternately performed Therefore widening and narrowing may be performed in' such a way,.

that a tickler of,sufiicient breadth is used which narrows in group I and widens in group III in one operation, because both operations are performed in the same di-" rection of movement, and in the next row. group I can be widened while group III is simultaneously narrowed. The fact that the rowsare'ofl'set from each other has no influence on' the fabric itself. I If desired widening and narrowing canat first be performed to the left and thereafter tothe right, or the said operations are performed simultaneouslyon both-sides by-means of'a single tickler. ,I v

The goods can be reinforced at suitable parts, which is done by. any known or prefrom A'-A to line BB must be performed in two operations, for which purpose group I is at first widened to the left, thereafter group III to the right, and finally knitting is performed. If the tickler is made in two sections, widening can be performed simultaneously at both sides.

The operation of the covering needles is regulated by means of a Jacquard pattern or by other suitable means.

I claim herein as my invention:

1. The methodof knitting socks, stock'- ings, and the like, which consists in knitting the leg, regularly knitting the inner set of .loops to form a part of the foot, widening the outer sets of loops to form the heel, thereafter continuing the regular knittin of the part of'the foot, widening a part 0 each of the outer sets of loops and simul taneously narrowing another part ofeach of the outer sets of loops, and finally completing thefoot.

2. The method of knitting socks, stockings, and the like, which consists in knitting the leg, regularly knitting the inner set of loops to'form a part of the foot,

ings, and the like, which consists in knitting the leg, regularly knitting the inner setof loops to form a partof the foot,

'widening the outer sets of loops to .form

the heel, thereafter continuing the regular knitting of the part of the foot, alternately 'in successive rows widening the inner-and medial parts while regularly knitting'the outer part of each of the outer sets of loops and regularly knitting said inner part while regularly knitting. said medial and outer parts, the number of the loops of the inner part being gradually reduced asnarrowing of the outer parts proceeds, and finally completing the foot.

4. The method of knitting socks, stock- .ings, and the like, which consists in knitting the leg, regularly knitting the inner set of loops to form a art of the foot, widenin the outersets o loops to 'form the hee thereafter continuing the regular knitting 4 of'the part of the foot, alternately in successive ows widening the inner and medial .part while regularly knitting the outer part jacent loops, and finally completing the 10 of each of the outer sets of loops and regufoot. larly knitting said inner part while regu- In testimony that I claim the foregoing larly knitting said medial and outer parts, as my invention, I have signed my name in, the number of the loops of the inner part presence of two subscribing witnesses.

being gradually reduced as narrowing of FRANZ CECKA.

the outer part proceeds, and narrowing and Witnesses: widening being performed a distance corre- T. E. STEGER, spending to the double distance of two ad- M. ROTHE. 

